The weather for Friday's opening round of the Dutchess County Amateur golf tournament was bad.

The scores were not.

LaGrangeville's Mike Fisher holds a one-stroke lead over Poughkeepsie's Dan Gabel after Fisher fired a 3-under-par 69 at McCann Memorial Golf Course. Fourteen golfers are within five strokes of Fisher. A thunderstorm delay halted play for one hour and 49 minutes.

"That's awesome. I'm absolutely thrilled," Fisher, a two-time Amateur champion, said of his score. "I got a couple of good breaks out there. I just took advantage of them. I had just a lot of stress-free pars, which is good in this tournament."

Saturday's second round is at Red Hook, with the lead group of Fisher, Gabel and Fred Newswanger teeing off last at 10:34 a.m. Play concludes Sunday with the championship round at The Links at Union Vale, a par-70 course in LaGrangeville.

The cut for Saturday's play was 83. Seven golfers shot par or better, with four golfers breaking par.

Play was halted at around 3 p.m. when a thunderstorm rumbled through Poughkeepsie and the 22 golfers who were on the back nine were called off the course. When play resumed, the course was wet, but the greens were playable.

"I thought even-par would be a good round," said Newswanger, a former Dutchess County Senior Amateur champion. "I thought the course was set up a little easier than I thought it would be, but very fair. I made more birdies than I usually make. Seventy-one's a great round for me."

Stauderman, 14, an incoming freshman at Spackenkill High School, was playing in his first Amateur.

"I was just trying to make the cut today, but shooting 71 and being tied for third is great," Stauderman said. "I'm just going to play my own game and shoot around par."

Dilio said he thought 72 would be a good score to put him where he needed to be to stay in contention.

"Red Hook and The Links sets up good for me," said Dilio, who played with Fisher and Nosonowitz, who has won the Amateur four times. "I was playing with two great guys. It doesn't really matter how we played. We had some good conversations out there. We all played well and it was really competitive and really exciting."

Wilson, who graduated from Spackenkill in 2013 and is entering his sophomore season at SUNY Cobleskill, thought he played a good round of golf.

"I stuck to my game plan," Wilson said. "I didn't hit many errant shots. I did everything I could to keep it where it was and stay calm, cool and collected. I didn't hit all my putts, but I hit the ball so well where I stayed in (contention) all day because of it.''

Below are the scores from the first round of the Dutchess County Amateur at McCann Memorial Golf Course in Poughkeepsie. Play continues Saturday at par-72 Red Hook Golf Club and concludes Sunday at The Links at Union Vale, a par-70 course in LaGrangeville.

Mike Fisher 34-35—69

Dan Gabel 32-38—70

Fred Newswanger 34-37—71

Erik Stauderman 34-37—71

Ian Wilson 36-36—72

Steve Nosonowitz 35-37—72

Nick Dilio 36-36—72

Adam Seifts 35-38—73

Barry Winter 35-38—73

Jim Hamburger 36-37—73

Ryan Gabel 36-37—73

Kyle Hover 35-39—74

Kevin Ludwig 37-37—74

Todd Jackson 34-40—74

Stew Blake 36-38—74

Drew Comatos 34-41—75

Jim Dunn 36-39—75

Thomas Meyerson 35-41—76

Steve Stuetzle 41-35—76

Brian Viola 37-39—76

Matt Mahlke 39-37—76

John Muro 36-41—77

Justin LaFalce 37-40—77

Brian Casey 40-37—77

Matt Gjonaj 37-40—77

Austin Lunstedt 37-40—77

Matt Simmons 38-40—78

Cullen Spang 40-38—78

John Dearden 40-38—78

Hermes Gil 39-39—78

Michael Rowan 40-39—79

Craig Irwin 38-41—79

Glenn Hover 38-41—79

Jeffrey Peters 36-43—79

Ken Hartling 39-40—79

Rick Santacroce 39-40—79

Glen Olewnick 38-41—79

Tom Cerulli 38-41—79

Nick Turenchalk 39-41—80

Dan Hart 38-42—80

Jason Zrodlowski 38-42—80

Carlo Alvarez 38-42—80

Jordan Stein 38-42—80

Ryan Russo 39-42—81

Brad Waldorf 42-39—81

Tom Symolen 39-42—81

Farid Khan 38-43—81

Tom McGimpsey 40-42—82

Dan Hannon 41-41—82

Dan Pizzarelli 43-39—82

Phil Kemp 40-42—82

Steven Spahn 41-42—83

Matt Henry 42-41—83

Daniel Gil 40-43—83

Mark Webber 41-42—83

Bill Starzyk 42-41—83

Missed cut

Chris Cayea 41-43—84

Brad Warren 41-43—84

Dave Canfield 41-43—84

Matt Tierney 42-42—84

Chris Adel 41-43—84

John Simou 42-43—85

Mark Giordano 44-41—85

Dwight Hunt 40-46—86

Jim Bernard 43-43—86

Kurt McMillen 42-44—86

Matt Richard 44-42—86

Corey Savage 42-44—86

Dave Vilardi 43-43—86

Bee Mera 42-45—87

Niccolo Porcello 42-45—87

Wyeth Drummond 46-42—88

Richard Messer 45-44—89

Kevin Duncan 42-47—89

Dave Morano 47-42—89

Jon Abbott 50-42—92

Joseph Pellizzari 47-47—94

Tony Rinaldi WD

Ed Boone WD

Joseph DeBerardinis WD

Jon Surkis WD

Below are tee times for Saturday's second round of the Dutchess County Amateur at Red Hook Golf Club.